The Walkmen just celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band. During the concert they brought out this great new song. Check out a good quality video of “Heartbreaker” below.

[via WAWSTSF]

If Portugal the Man aren’t recording a new album, then they’re touring the world. This spring it looks like they’ll be hitting up a lot of second- and third-tier cities in America. It looks like I’ll be catching them at least once this year, since they’ve got a stop at Buster’s in Lexington.

Portugal. The Man spring tour dates
April 03 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
April 04 – Reno, NV – Knitting Factory Concert House
April 05 – Las Vegas, NV – Club Veil
April 06 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
April 09 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
April 10 – Gainesville, FL – Florida Theatre of Gainesville
April 11 – Tampa, FL – The Ritz Ybor
April 12 – Orlando FL – The Beacham Theater
April 14 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
April 15 – Lexington, KY – Buster’s
April 16 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
April 17 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
April 19 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live
April 20 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 21 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
April 22 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
April 24 – Buffalo, NY – The Town Ballroom
April 25 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
April 26 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
April 28 – Norman, OK – Norman Music Festival
April 29 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
April 30 – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
May 02 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
May 03 – Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theatre
May 04 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre
May 05 – San Diego, CA – 4th & B
May 06 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent

When I first wrote about Yellow Ostrich’s upcoming album Strange Land, I posted a live recording of a new song. Now we’ve got one better. Here’s the studio version of “Marathon Runner.”

MP3: Yellow Ostrich – Marathon Runner
Based on this first track, it seems that we’re in for a great progression in Yellow Ostrich’s production. This has a clear stylistic link to Mistress, but it’s a lot cleaner sounding. I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.

Order Strange Land from Barsuk

St Vincent continues to spice up her live shows with great cover choices. This time she’s pulling from Pearl Jam’s early work with this cover of “Black.” [via CoS]

You can check out more St Vincent covers at the St Vincent covers archive I assembled last year.

Even though we just got our first taste of Kishi Bashi’s upcoming record 151a, he’s already dished out a second. Enjoy “Bright Whites.”

MP3: Kishi Bashi – Bright Whites

[via CoS]

I’m not sure how I missed it, but They Might Be Giants put out a great video for their song “When Will You Die?”

Cults were joined by rapper Freddie Gibbs last night to perform a live remix of “Bad Things” at Webster Hall. This reminds me of the time that Pitchfork was all abuzz at the idea that Grizzly Bear and Clipse might join Girl Talk on stage to provide the live mashup vocals for his “Knife” remix — Ed from Grizzly Bear was down to perform, but Clipse declined because they didn’t have any time to practice it.

[via CoS]

Yesterday Z-Trip posted a concert for free download. It’s got a large chunk of him DJing solely off 45′s.

Download Live in LA at Z-Trip’s soundcloud page

Of Montreal’s incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist K Ishibashi has a new album out under his Kishi Bashi moniker. 151a will be released April 10 on Joyful Noise. Here’s our first listen.

MP3: Kishi Bashi – It All Began With a Burst
For someone who uses as many studio tricks and instruments as he does, Kishi Bashi’s music sounds surprisingly basic and natural. He’s got such a great way of thinking about production and melody that I’ve yet to hear a bad song from him — and “It All Began with a Burst” is easily one of his best. Can’t wait to hear the full record!